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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) | ||
blip n 1: a sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption; "the market had one bad blip today"; "you can't react to the day-to-day blips"; "renewed jitters in the wake of a blip in retail sales" 2: a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface [syn: blip, pip, radar target] | ||
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
blip \blip\ n. 1. (Radar) a spot of light on a radar screen, showing the position of a reflecting surface, such as an airplane or ship. Note: this sense is also used metaphorically to mean a barely perceptible object;, Kennedy's candidacy was a mere blip on Humphrey's radar screen until he won the West Virginia primary. This is the probably origin of sense 3. Syn: radar echo, radar target. [WordNet 1.5] 2. a short upward or downward deviation from a trend line on a graph, especially in a plot of some variable, such as an economic variable, against time; as, a brief blip upward in the unemployment rate. [PJC] 3. something small or insignificant. [PJC] 4. a brief interruption in the continuity of a recorded or transmitted signal; as, there is a blip on my CD of Beethoven's ninth. [PJC] | ||
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